Re:Salon magazine mines crypto-cash with readers' PCs
by applecrazy on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:05AM
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If so, this is a stupid publicity stunt, given the largely negative reaction by this community and the media. If anything, more people will install adblockers because of things like this.
And the publishers can quantify how much it gets.
With the volatility of crypto assets this is not a viable solution for the publisher, especially because readers who have an ad-blocker installed are likely to block the mining script as well.
This is a publicity stunt. Nothing more, nothing less.